The government has set up a high-level task force in order to deal with employment data discrepancies and ensure the timely availability of reliable information regarding job creation. The task force will recommend solutions which can be implemented in a time-bound manner. The government attaches the highest priority to job creation.
The Prime Minister Narendra Modi has directed that this task be expedited so that policies on employment can be formulated with a proper appreciation of impacts, based on credible data. India suffers from a lack of reliable, timely data on employment which has made it difficult for policy makers and independent observers to assess the extent of employment generation at different points of time. Some data is collected and published by certain agencies including the Labour Bureau, but the coverage is very small as it covers only a few sectors and the methodology is not based on updated panel of survey respondents.
The task force will be headed by government think tank NITI Aayog Vice Chairman Arvind Panagriya. The other members will include Labour Secretary M Sathiyavathy, Secretary of Statistics TCA Ananth, Pulak Ghosh of NITI Aayog and Manish Sabharwal, chairman of human resource services TeamLease.
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